Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Nora Thompson had her head shaved
Saturday to show support for her sonin-law’s battle against cancer.

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Thousands of people came out to see Santa Claus in the parade in Maple Ridge on Saturday night and to enjoy the festivities at Memorial Peace Park.

Christmas

Santa thrills thousands
Kids of all ages waited streetside for a wave from St. Nick on
Saturday in Maple Ridge.
by Sylver McLaren

smclaren@mrtimes.com

Santa Claus was a very busy man
at Saturday night’s Christmas celebrations in Maple Ridge.
First the big guy in red was seen
with Mrs. Claus getting his pictures
taken with all the children.
Next, he was switching on the
coloured lights on the big tree in
Memorial Peace Park.
And finally, he starred in the
parade, waving and “ho ho hoing” to
hundreds of kids who eagerly awaited his arrival in town.
Santa’s float was the last of about
50 entries to make its way through
the Maple Ridge downtown core during the parade.

So what’s up next for the jolly old
day season, the bearded gentleman
elf? It will be a lot of back and forth
said: “Tell your families ‘I love you’
to the North Pole in the remaining
before it’s too late. That’s the kind
days leading up to Christmas Eve.
of message I’d like to give. Visit
And asked what Santa does the
your folks or grandparents and give
rest of the year, he
them a big hug for
admitted to spendChristmas.”
“Tell your
ing part of the time
Asked about the
living among us
families ‘I love highlights of his
– under the alias of
namesake parade,
you’… give
Don Gehring (but
Santa Claus said
them a big hug he loved the
keep that under
More
your proverbial
for Christmas.” miniature horses
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hat), as a supposed
pulling his sleigh
Santa
Claus
Online
retired pub owner
(giving a much
from Maple Ridge
needed rest to his
with three children, five grandchilreindeer). “The little horses were
dren, and four great-grandchildren.
dear little things, the cutest,” he said.
And much of his off-season is
But his favourite part was again “All
devoted to building bird houses, garthe little ones. Even the parents love
dening, and writing poetry.
to see their little ones running up and
“I look forward to everyday,” said
touching my hand.”
Claus, who is rumoured to be turning
And he’s always amused when a
79 just days before Christmas.
couple of young children asked him
Asked what message he’d like
if he’s the real Santa. “Ho ho ho, of
to share with the masses this holicourse I am,” he always replies.

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aple Ridge wrestling champion Disco Fury is no
tart, but he sure loves his mother-in-law’s Back
Breaker Butter Tarts.
“You’ll get smacked in the face, full of taste, with
these tarts,” said Disco Fury, the Westview graduate and
owner of All Star Wrestling.
“I hail from the town where legends are born and bred
– Maple Ridge, where the athletes are strong and the
people are kind, so everyone, all aboard this disco train
ride and SLAM these butter tarts down for the count!”
said Disco, who will team up with partner Gorgeous
Michelle Starr and go up against Bollywood Lions, on
Friday, Dec. 9, at the Cloverdale fairgrounds.
The match follows the Firestorm Rumble, where two
wrestlers start and another joins in the action. The winner of this match wins the Adam Firestorm Memorial
Belt. Firestorm died in November 2009, and all proceeds
from the night go to a trust fund for his son, Thomas.
Info: at vtixonline.com or by calling 778-839-0872.

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Silent treatment sends global message
Silence was golden, and
effective, for young people
across the community.

TD Bank robbed
A man robbed TD Canada Trust at
Westgate shopping mall on Friday morning around 9 a.m. He received an undisclosed amount of money before leaving
the bank. The suspect is described as a
white man, between 30 and 40 years
of age, six feet tall, about 200 pounds
with a stocky, and short dark hair. He
had some scruffy facial hair, scars, and
a band-aid on his face. He was wearing
a hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, white
running shoes and a dark blue or black
baseball hat.
• More police news at www.mrtimes.com

Fire Chiefs for a Day Olivia Bastaja and
Caden Lubchynski.

Recruits disciplined
Failing uniform inspection landed two
of Maple Ridge fire department’s newest
recruits in proverbial hot water, requiring
them to do push ups. That was the punishment dished out to Olivia Bastaja and
Caden Lubchynski during their short-lived
tenure as local firefighters. The pair were
crowned Fire Chief for a Day recently,
getting a chance to meet the mayor, and
visit Firehall #1 and the Justice Institute
of B.C. fire safety training centre facilities.
• More at www.mrtimes.com

Two charged for riot
Two Maple Ridge men are among the
first 25 people to be charged with Stanley
Cup riot offences. Jeff Post and Connor
Epp have both been charged with participating in a riot and mischief in relation
to the riot that broke out in downtown
Vancouver following the Canucks loss
of the Stanley Cup on June 15. In total,
61 charges have been laid against men,
women, and one young offender from
across the Lower Mainland.
• More at www.mrtimes.com

by Troy Landreville

tlandreville@mrtimes.com

Students across School District
42 gave the world around them
the “silent treatment” last week.
For a 24-hour period that
started Nov. 30, approximately
70 students at Maple Ridge
Secondary took a Vow of Silence
to create awareness for child
slaves and soldiers in countries
rife with poverty, forced child
labour, and abuse.
“These children don’t have
access to the opportunities that
[we] kids here are so privileged to have, but so easily take
for granted,” said Rachel Carrier,
one of the organizers of the
MRSS vow.
By taking the vow, students
pledged to stay silent for 24
hours. That meant no talking,
no texting, no Facebook, no
Twitter, and no communication
of any kind whatsoever.
“By doing this not only do
we grasp a better understanding of what these children have
– not because they’re literally
mute, but because no one will
hear them… and also others
will see that this is a matter that
needs to be dealt with,” Carrier
explained.
MRSS Grade 12 student Kyla
Seward said not being able to
communicate, verbally or electronically, was very difficult.
“It’s so automatic to speak,”
she said. “Sometimes you want
to say something as simple as
‘thank you’ to someone.”
Carrier recalled that on Nov.
30, she accidentally “mowed
over” a school-mate in the hallway.
“I couldn’t say anything, and

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“Mum” was the word last week for Maple Ridge Secondary students, who took a vow of silence to raise awareness for children across the
world who aren’t given a voice.
I felt so bad because I couldn’t
apologize,” she said.
Equally challenging: steering
clear of emails and texts.
“It also makes you realize,
what is our world coming to
when these children can’t say
anything for themselves, and
we take that right for granted,”
Seward said.
At MRSS, the vow was run
by the organization Free the
Children.
This year, Carrier and others
organized the vow as an awareness project in their school,
with the hope that the future of
their club (HOPE, which is acronym for Helping Other People
Everywhere) will carry on larger
fundraisers after the current
members graduate.
The fact a number of Grade 8s

took part in this year’s vow was
heartening to Seward.
“They’re going to be the future
of this school,” she said. “We’re
trying to leave a legacy so others
can pick it up and continue that
kind of [selfless] thinking. It’s
not about me, me, me – it’s
about us.”
At Garibaldi Secondary, the
vow started at lunchtime Nov.
30 and the group broke their
silence together 24 hours later,
on Dec. 1.
All participants collected
pledges that would go towards a
water well they are fundraising
for in Sierra Leone.
Last year, the Garibaldi community raised $10,000 for a
school in Moyamba, Sierra
Leone, and are trying to raise
$5,000 this year to drill a water

Economic development

Forum focuses on local jobs in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows
The provincial government
supports local jobs.

Pitt Meadows and Maple
Ridge are part of a provincial
pilot project to bring more jobs
into the local economy.
The Regional Economic
Investment Pilot is aimed at

attracting investment, identifying opportunities, economic
diversification, and job creation
in areas consistent with the
provincial BC Jobs Plan.
The pilot will roll out in
each community with a local
forum, and the first is being
held on Dec. 8 in the North
Fraser region – Pitt Meadows,

Maple Ridge, and Mission – and
will be hosted by Pat Bell,
Minister of Jobs, Tourism and
Innovation.
About 120 people are expected to attend the event with invitations going to key business
and industry leaders.
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will be able to go to school and
collect water at the same time.
Across the district, the vow
was a part of the Me to We
initiative in which schools have
been participating in over the
past few years.
Along with Maple Ridge and
Garibaldi secondaries, District
42 schools that took the vow
included Westview Secondary
and Fairview (10 to 15 students
in Grades 6 and 7), Alouette,
Glenwood (a few students made
the decision independently),
Alexander Robinson, Yennadon
(some Grade 6’s and 7’s took
part) and Maple Ridge elementary schools.
Webster’s Corner Elementary
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Holiday celebrations

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Many first-time attendees enjoyed
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The weather Friday night was crisp
and clear as hundreds of people
made their way to Pitt Meadows
Spirit Square for the third annual
community Christmas party.
Formerly called Christmas
in the City, organizers say
this year’s A Pitt Meadows
Christmas was the best attended so far – estimates saying
Ronda Payne/TIMES
attendance nearly doubled.
Sara-Ashlee
and
little
sister
Nicole
spent
time
in
a
fire
truck
with
one
of
many
Many attendees were firstMore
emergency personnel on hand at A Pitt Meadows Christmas.
timers who expressed enjoyDave Walsh.
ters Nicole and Sara. “I learned about
ment with this event designed
Photos
The grounds were filled
it from a friend through Facebook.”
for families and focused on
Online
with family fun from fire
Another first-time attendee, grandChristmas in their community.
trucks and police motormother Gina Coutts, stopped in with
Pitt Meadows resident Karen
cycles, performances on stage, and
three-year-old grandson Drake while
Bateson and her family have lived in
miniature ponies that delivered Santa on the hunt for Christmas lights.
Pitt Meadows since 1973, yet this is
Vendors with booths were busy
the first year they have attended. Her and Mrs. Claus.
“The crowd is good, it’s very
and while they described the evening
children Emily and Cody spent much
entertaining with kids singing,” said
as frantic, they were clear about how
of their time visting with Santa.
Bob Garnett, the evening’s MC. “It’s
much they enjoyed it.
“I asked for an iPod Touch,” 10a nice crowd for a nice clear, crisp
A summary of the event came from
year-old Emily shared.
evening. It should be cold for a
organizer Michael Hayes, president
Despite the jovial noise and the
Christmas celebration.”
of the Pitt Meadows Foundation.
huge crowds, there were thankfully
Families attending for the first time
“It’s about community, it’s about
no major issues for the emergency
commented on how excited they
families, it’s about coming together
responders on scene. Instead, they
were to discover the celebration; one
and it’s about celebrating the season.
were able to partake in the sights
who learned about it from Facebook.
Tonight, it makes it all worthwhile
and sounds of the gathering while
“I’ve lived here [in Pitt Meadows]
– the six months of planning. It’s the
showing off their equipment to the
for five years and this is the first time best attendance ever; I’d say maybe
kids.
I’ve heard of it [the event],” said
1,200 to 1,400 people. Easily double
“It’s a classic community event,”
Deanna Chaves who brought daughthe turnout of last year.”
said Ridge Meadows RCMP Supt.

Santa Claus (above) held
a baby girl in his arms at
the tree lighting ceremony.
Fourteen-year-old Reid Muller
and his sister Elise, 10, posed
with their dog in a cutout made
by their dad Eric.

Santa stops by Osprey
by Sylver McLaren

smclaren@mrtimes.com

Santa Claus wrapped up a busy weekend by dropping by Osprey Village on
Sunday night to the delight of the local
children.
At the fourth annual Osprey Christmas
tree lighting ceremony, Santa, as well as
several hundred people, counted down
from 10 to watch a tree light up with
hundreds of colourful lights.
Nearby, carollers sang for local families
with sing-along Christmas songs, and
Bonson Community Centre was open for

colouring and tours. Kids enjoyed playing
tag in the multi-purpose room.
And Rudy, the Operation Red Nose
reindeer, made an appearance as well,
posing for pictures with all the kids,
young and old.
New to the event this year was three
Christmas-themed cutouts designed by
local artist Eric Muller. The project was
a team-effort between Muller and the
wood-working class at Pitt Meadows
Secondary.
“I did the drawing, but [Matthew
Mikes] and his students cut out the
shapes,” said Muller.
“He also let us work on them at the
school,” he added of the gingerbread
men, Santa and Mrs. Claus, and Rudolph
cutouts.
The project cost Muller approximately
$90 and took about 12 hours.

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Don’t miss the opportunity to ﬁnd out more about the City of Pitt Meadows 2012-2016 Financial Plan.
ALL MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO
ATTEND (Please note time changes)
Thursday, December 8, 2011 4:30-9:00pm (Council Workshop)
• Review of Budget Issues and Impacts
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:00pm (Part of Council in Committee Meeting)
• Financial and Business Plan Overview
• Opportunity for Public Input on proposed Financial Plan
Further meetings will be held as required and updates will be posted on our website at www.
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Santa, Rudy, and carollers entertained
hundreds of children and adults in Pitt
Meadows Sunday night.

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Charity

Bra fetches $1,800 for needy families

Strip-a-thon will help
bring Christmas to the
less fortunuate.
by Maria Rantanen

mrantanen@mrtimes.com

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Romana Van Lissum (left), head waitress at the CaddyShack, and patron
Sarah Welsh showed the bra that sold for $1,800 at the Strip-a-thon.
“We’re so amazed how
much the bras go for,”
Van Lissum said.
Final numbers hadn’t
been tallied from the stripa-thon as of the TIMES’

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year they raised more than
$20,000.
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The Christmas hamper
society will help a lot of
families this year – thanks
partly to the annual stripa-thon held Sunday at the
CaddyShack.
With bras, a waitress
date, and lots of donated
items being auctioned
off, the bar’s patrons
were in the giving mood
to help the Maple RidgePitt Meadows Christmas
Hamper Society make
Christmas possible for
hundreds of local families.
For about eight years,
bras have been auctioned
off at the annual event.
The first year, head server Romana Van Lissum
figured she’d get about
$50 for her bra and was
surprised when it brought
in $300. This Sunday, she
auctioned off her bra for
$1,800.

donated to the hamper
society.
There are a few complaints every year about
the strip-a-thon and its
appropriateness as a fundraiser for the hamper society, Van Lissum said, but
every year they raise a lot
of money that’s needed.
“Does it really matter
where it comes from?”
Van Lissum said.
Tom Cameron, co-organizer of the Maple RidgePitt Meadows Christmas
Hamper Society, said 420
families have already
registered for hampers.
Donations at boxes in
Haney Place Mall and
Valley Fair Mall have been
minimal. New, unwrapped
toys and other gifts can be
dropped of at those locations during mall hours.
Families can still register for help at Christmas
with the society on Dec.
11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at the Albion Fairgrounds
(near Planet Ice). They can
also call the hamper office
at 604-463-6922 to book a
time to register.

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Remember to
stop violence
Geneviève Bergeron. Hélène Colgan.
Nathalie Croteau. Barbara Daigneault.
Anne-Marie Edward. Maud Haviernick.
Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. Maryse
Laganière. Maryse Leclair. Anne-Marie
Lemay. Sonia Pelletier. Michèle Richard.
Annie St-Arneault. Annie Turcotte.
Those are 14 names that bear
remembering – although for most
people it will be easier to bring to mind
the name of the man who shot them to
death.
After all, there was only one killer…
and there are so many victims.
The 14 names belong to the young
women who were killed in what has
become known as “the Montreal
Masscre” at l’Ecole Politechnique exactly 22 years ago today.
Their violent deaths have become a
milestone reminder in Canada of the
women and girls who die as a result of
deliberate acts of gender-based violence,
in this country and elsewhere, every
year.
It was the Montreal Massacre that
prompted Parliament to establish an
annual day of mourning – the National
Day of Remembrance and Action on
Violence Against Women – first marked
on the second anniversary of the violent
episode that had destroyed so many
young lives and their families on Dec.
6, 1989.
Beyond commemorating those 14
young women, the day is aimed at
drawing awareness to the problem that
remains among us – a time to reflect
on what we all can do, as Canadians,
to prevent – and perhaps one day eliminate – all forms of violence against
women and girls.
That such violence continues is
unacceptable, and to sit idly by is
unthinkable.
– B.G.

Wendy Bradley
Administration

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Last week’s question, results…
With a series of community Christmas festivities
planned in the coming days and weeks, are you
planning to attend any?

Who the heck is offended?
I find it remarkable that there
them apart, because it doesn’t
are still people out there who are
take a structured belief system to
trying to rub out Christmas with
identify what is right.
their political correctness erasers.
And Christmas is right.
Supposedly, it’s about fear that
Or at least: what Christmas
some people might be offended
means is right.
because Christmas may conflict
That’s not to say that the
with others’ religious beliefs.
Christians have a lock on it. I’m
Forgive me for asking, but…
heartened that every year the
which religion is it out there that
Hindu festival of lights, Diwali,
gets its adherents upset about
has been picking up steam.
peace and joy and people being
And I’d like to hear a few more
by Bob Groeneveld
nice to each other?
Happy Hanukkahs this year, too.
I know the Muslims don’t
There are lots of great festimind. Many of them put up trees
vals and celebrations that can
and give gifts.
be borrowed, begged, or heck, even stolen to
After all, real Muslims share nearly all of their
help spread happiness, peace, joy, and general
basic tenets with Christianity (not the handwell-being between, within, and among people
ful of fundamentalist loonies from both camps
everywhere.
who make the news by blowing themselves
And the only religions that are not welcome
and others up – which is, I’ll agree, not a very
here are the ones that preach anything else.
Christmassy thing to do).
Fer cryin’ out loud! Who the heck is offended
I haven’t met a single Jew who minds
by Christmas?
Christmas – they even take part to some extent,
Sure, the whole Christmas concept has been
although they don’t generally celebrate it as a
abused and misused, particularly through comreligious holiday, per se.
mercialization.
There’s the famous old story of the Jewish guy
But if that’s your beef, think of (or better still,
who worked double-shifts each Christmas so that donate to) some of the organizations that focus
his co-worker friends could be home with kith
on feeding and clothing people at Christmas, like
and kin.
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Christmas Hamper
Sure, it’s been going around so long that it
Society, and all year round, like Friends In Need
may be true, or may just be an urban legend…
Food Bank.
but if it is an urban legend, it survives because
Or go further afield, and think of the millions
it speaks to a basic truth that we all know that
of people – mostly children – who could use
we all share, regardless of our underpinning
a helping hand through a Christmas gift, like
belief systems: it feels good to be good, and you
World Vision, or Red Cross (or Red Crescent
know you’re being good when what you’re doing – trust me, they won’t mind if you call it a
makes other people feel good.
Christmas gift when you help them to help
There isn’t a legitimate religion that doesn’t
others), Ten Thousand Villages, or any of a host
share the down-to-earth values of peace and joy
of good-works organizations, religious or not.
and goodwill to all mankind.
The only beef that most people who do good
The non-religious know it, too.
works all around the world all the time have
To borrow a phrase from the antithesis of
with Christmas is that people let it end at the
end of the day, and days like it aren’t celebrated
peace: There are no atheists at Christmas.
every day of the year.
Well, actually, there are – but you can’t tell

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Mailbag

Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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Democracy

Occupy fight just beginning
Dear Editor,

I have been looking at the disturbing
pictures and reading the reports about
the suppression of the democratic Occupy
Movement and I can assure you that we
have seen nothing yet.
The full power, control, and money has
yet to be seen that the super rich one per
cent is undoubtedly prepared to unleash
to maintain the status quo, which means

Animal welfare

Buyer beware
Dear Editor,

Recently, I purchased a Timber Sleep
and Play [cat tree].
A few weeks later, I woke up at 6
a.m. to find my kitten hanging by his
neck. I swiftly picked up my kitten and
tore the elastic string off of his neck…
he was gasping for his last breath.
So why am I writing this to you? As
a consumer, I contacted the head office
of the place of purchase of the item,
and I expressed my concerns and the
incident that took place.
The response I received was an
expression of concern about my kitten,
followed up with this statement:
“This is the first time we have
received feedback on this happening,
and we do sell thousands of similar
trees per month.
“Even though this is a sad accident,
we do not feel it’s due to faulty product. There are many cat toys, trees,
and scratchers on the market that have
string/rope danglers, and cats, being
cats, do get into everything and enjoy
this type of play.
“We have taken your comments into
consideration and we will discuss this
further with our manufacturers for further feedback.”
I just want to make people are aware
when we go into a pet supply store to
make sure the products are safe.
I’ve always thought that these products go under some sort of safety
screening.
Cats will be cats… but at what cost?
Get rid of the danglers or any other
form of elastic strings hanging off your
kittens’ new joy.

Kathy Jackson, Pitt Meadows

End of life

Fraser Health owed
a family’s gratitude
Dear Editor,

We are quick in today’s society to criticize our health care system. So when we
have a positive experience, it is important
to recognize it.
Recently, I lost my wife of more than
35 years to a chronic disease. But with
the help of the Fraser Health palliative
care unit, I was fortunate to be able to
keep her comfortable and pain-free in our
own home for her last days.
My family and I are grateful for the
skill, sensitivity, and respect shown by
the Fraser Health physicians, nurses, and
home-care providers who supported us
through a very difficult time.
We have lost a beloved life partner,
mother, and grandmother, but in the
process gained a renewed respect for the
health-care professionals who helped us
through her final days.

Dennis Gardner, Pitt Meadows

keeping the world’s people powerless and
enslaved in their miserly quest for the
riches of avarice.
The one per cent masters of the universe have had a great con going for the
last 30 years consolidating their power
and wealth. If anyone thinks that they will
just give up all the power and money they
have accumulated, just because the 99
per cent want a piece of the pie, you are
wrong.
There will be plenty of blood spilled
before this is over.
We have witnessed the fact that the
chosen few certainly don’t mind spilling
the 99 per cent’s blood from Vietnam to
all the way to Libya. As a matter of fact, it
is one of their main sources of income, as
long as it isn’t them or their children.
General Eisenhower was right: the military industrial complex will be the downfall of America. It will fall from within at
the hands of the one per cent.
The government is controlled by and
for these chosen few, which means they
control the media, military, the police,
the courts – just about everybody. It will
escalate and without a doubt get bloody
before the end.
The 99 per cent will win in the end for
the simple fact that the present system is
not sustainable, never mind all the other
injustices such as, simply not conducive
to a just, democratic, egalitarian society.

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Civic election

Take action,
be decisive
Dear Editor,

People can be divided into three groups:
those who make things happen, those who
watch things happen, and then there are
those who wonder what happened.
Nicholas M. Butler
Isn’t that so typical of human behaviour, eh?
There are those who cannot or will
not make a decision, perhaps they look
around and hope for an idea, any idea,
then, still do not know what to do about
whatever troubles them.
Nov. 19 was the day for the annual
civic election hereabouts. I wonder just
how many were like this [indecisive], eh?
I wonder how many people were
unable to make a decision for which one
they were going to vote for… and ended
up just marking their ballot just because
they felt it was their civic duty, yet really
did not know anything about who they
were voting for.
Or, where they stood about whatever.
I must confess that a number of years
ago, I was rather like this.
A few years ago I decided that was not
very responsible, at all.
For a much stronger change in my
character emerged when I got into the
recovery process.
Over time, my life became rather like
the difference between night and day.
My family – and what few friends I had –
knew my life had become rather less than
ideal (a.k.a. a mess), however, boozers
are invariably the last to realize this.
The recovery process became absolutely
wonderful!

Robert W. Stirling, Maple Ridge

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Three-year-old Ida Taylor, a miniature dachshund and Jack
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shop Saturday to get a photo taken with the Grinch, the main
protagonist in the 1957 Dr. Suess children’s book, How the
Grinch Stole Christmas!

Grinch’s heart grew three sizes
this Saturday, when he saw all the
two- and four-legged supporters
who came out to help the SAINTS
pet facility.
Fetch A Bone pet store in Pitt
Meadows offered pet pictures with
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“It really was a family event
with my husband as the Grinch,
my sister-in-law donating her time
as the photographer, my parents
and mother-in-law there helping as
well,” said Fetch owner Lisa Davies.
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on Sunday, Dec. 11, from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Whether furry, feathered or
scaled, Santa welcomes them all.
As well, Maple Ridge SPCA is
offering pet pictures with Santa for a
minimum $5 donation to the shelter.
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Family bake fest high priority for Pitt Meadows mayor
to bake for the holidays.
The annual Walters baking ritual
begins pretty early in the day, and
amid wonderful chit-chat, they
listen to Christmas music and visit
while baking up large quantities of
butter tarts, shortbread, and fudge.
The music play list for the day
invariably includes Deb’s favourite,
John Denver’s Christmas record
– yes vinyl, no CDs or iPods when
it comes to the holiday music in the
Walters home.
“It’s an excuse for everyone to get
together,” she said, noting that the
morning is filled with non-stop baking, while the afternoon is traditionally spent decorating and sampling.
Provided her husband and children don’t consume too many of
the holiday treats, she hopes to
stash some away in the freezer for
when company drops by, and share
some with the City staff and the
new council (she’s being sworn in
as mayor of Pitt Meadows tonight,
during the council’s inaugural meeting).
“Christmas is everything to us,”
Walters said. “We just love catching up with family. We have a big
family. And it’s time when we see
friends we maybe have been too
busy to connect with the rest of the
year. It’s just a very important time
for us.”

Deb Walters and her husband Len took part in the Osprey Village
Christmas tree-lighting celebration, among other holiday festivities in Pitt
Meadows each year.

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an shortbread has been
a holiday favourite for
decades, for Pitt Meadows’s
new mayor Deb Walters
and her family,.
“This recipe has special meaning
to me,” Walters said, noting it was
passed down from her Grandma
Frances Gow.
Grandma Gow, Walters’s maternal
grandmother, had 16 children and
made her pan shortbread without
fail every year.
“It was important for her to find
cost effective recipes,” Walters said,
and this one qualified.
But while it’s sentimental and
incredibly tasty, the new mayor
admitted one of its biggest selling
features – at least from her perspective – is the ease with which she
can make it.
It’s fast and easy.
While this past weekend was
divided between attending several
community Christmas events and
decorating their Pitt Meadows home
for the festive season, Walters said
baking is on the books for this coming Sunday.
“I’m going to have to find time,”
she said, noting it’s a huge priority for her take at least one day out
together as a family (Deb, her husband Len, and their children Cayley
Wilson, 24, and Scott Walters, 26.)

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RECIPE

Holiday ‘hot’ wings

Combine ‘marinade’ ingredients
in medium glass
bowl.
Cut chicken
wings into drumettes and wings.
Place chicken in
bowl – mix with marinade. Cover
bowl and place in fridge for at least
4 hours.
Pre-heat oven to 450ºF
Cover cookie sheet with aluminum foil.

LEASE FOR

Remove chicken wings from
marinade and place on cookie sheet
in single layer.
Cook chicken wings at 450ºF for
10 minutes; turn over and cook for
5 more minutes.
Reduce oven temperature to
350ºF and cook 15 minutes.
Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle/mix scallions and
Thai peppers over hot wings.
Serve and enjoy.
– Ryan McAdams,
TIMES publisher

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here’s always so much going on in Shannon and D’Arcy Balla’s Maple Ridge home
on Christmas morning, that a little advance
planning helps calm the chaos of the holiday.
Shannon Balla, advertising manager for The TIMES,
encourages any mothers, wives, or busy women to
take this recipe into consideration.
“Every Christmas Eve, I prepare this delicious dish
and pop it in the oven first thing Christmas morning.”
Voila!
“After Davis and Lauren open up all their gifts from
Santa, we sit down as a family – with the fireplace
going, Christmas music going in the background
– and enjoy the Christmas Wife Saver,” she said.
For her, the festive feast is augmented with a side
of fruit and some much needed coffee (sometimes
treated with a hint of Baileys).
An easy and tasty solution that helps destress the
holidays.

Twins Lauren and Davis Balla of Maple Ridge are six now,
but still look forward to Christmas as much now as they did
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dmittedly, I’m not much of a cook, or a baker,
for that
matter. I
can muddle
through with great assistance from a recipe
– if I have to. As you
can tell, I haven’t
starved.
Roxanne Hooper
What I have been
able to do, intentional or otherwise, is surround myself with people who have those
abilities. And from my grandmother, to my
mother, to my wife – all the key women in my
life have been able to cook and bake.
So while I can’t give much credit to my
mother or grandmother for teaching me the
Beth Hooper with her granddaughter
way around the kitchen – and not for lack of
Roxanne.
trying – I can thank them for passing down
many recipes that have become holiday traditions.
My grandmother, Beth Hooper,
made a tasty and easy shortbread and mouth-watering fudge.
When we’d get together for family
Christmases, these items always
highlighted my mother’s (Ellen) holiday treat tray, along with her wicked
Kid’s Kake and always scrumptious
butter tarts.
While neither of these ladies is still
around, the images of each of them
trying to teach me to bake, and the
My mother, Ellen Hooper, (right) always knew how
enjoyment of savouring their creto put on a spread.
ations will live on in my memories.

Dissolve in large sauce pan the
peanut butter, syrup, and sugar on
medium heat. Add 6 cups Special K,
and mix well.
Spread into a 13X8 inch cake pan
and press to cover.
Melt in double boiler both types
of the chips and spread for icing.
Cut into one-inch squares after icing
has set (about 1/2 hour).

ountry music legend
Elmer Tippe shares
his favourite part of
Christmas dinner.
That’s turkey dressing.
“We always called it
‘Stuffin’,” said the fiddle-weilding, guitar-strumming, countrywestern-singing, retired on-air
radio personality.
“This is my mom’s recipe
that my wife [Alice] carried on
during our 54-year marriage for
our Christmas dinners,” said
the 78-year-old Pitt Meadows
resident.
He always takes the giblets
from the cavity of the turkey
and chops the heart, gizzard,
and some of the liver up and
sautées them in butter in a
small fry pan.
“Sometimes today they aren’t
included in the turkey cavity,”
he noted. “Either way.”
In a large bowl, break apart
by hand a large loaf of day-old
bread – about 10 cups for a 15pound turkey.
Add the cooked giblets, butter,
salt, and freshly ground pepper
to taste.
Then add dried crushed sage
and thyme to taste.
Chop a large onion and add.
“Mom always said the more
onion you add, the more moist

Country musician Elmer Tippe has fond
memories of his mother’s “stuffin’,”
which he and his wife Alice still make
as part of their family Christmas.
the stuffin’ will be,” Tippe said,
recalling how his mother also
liked to add chopped celery.
Then add some milk a little at
a time and mix by hands until
all the bread is moist and sticks
together.
“Now stuff both ends of the
turkey just before you are ready
to bake it,” he advised.
“Of course, sew or use skewers to close. I guarantee you, the
smell of this stuffin’ is going to
make you drool!”

RECIPE

A little rum warms Tippe’s hot chocolate

A

ward-winning country
music
singer and
songwriter Rick Tippe
doesn’t have a favourite traditional food he
makes at Christmas
time, but there’s a
beverage that tops
the list for this Maple
Ridge man during the
holidays.
Be told, his favourite food is Halva, but
that’s something he
buys at a store: “So it
doesn’t qualify. So, for
my favourite traditional food that I make at
Christmas, I have to
go with a drink.”
He’s always been a
fan of rum and eggnog at Christmas, but
about a decade ago,
came up with his own
little concoction that
has become a bit of a
Christmas tradition in
the Tippe house.
Rick Tippe, like his father, entered the country
“I’m not a coffee
music industry.
drinker, but I love
hot chocolate,” Tippe
explained. “One Christmas, I received a bottle of Malibu Rum as a
gift. I decided to add a shot of it to my hot chocolate, and voila, a
new drink sensation was born.”

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Finnish bread recipe recycled through generations
Leanne Koehn had her picture taken
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grandmother Anna lived in, and
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Leanne Koehn’s
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Koehn’s mother.

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The next generation,
Leanne Koehn and her
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eanne Koehn’s maternal grandmother emigrated from Finland to Canada in the
1930s and passed away about 10 years before she was born.
Despite never knowing her, Koehn still keeps her memory alive every
Christmas with the creation of Anna’s traditional Finnish Boula (a type of sweet,
braided yeast bread).
The recipe was passed down to her mom, then to her, and in a few years to Koehn’s
daughter Zoe.
“My husband and I recently bought the Hammond house my mother grew up in, to
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RECIPE

Christmas
chocolates

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M

y Aunt Vi was wonderfully
inspiring always.
She was the only person
in my whole family who
ever told me to go out and have fun.
Christmas at my Aunt Vi’s always
included her wonderful home-made
chocolates. She couldn’t eat any herself
because she was diabetic.
She died years ago, but her memory is
still very much alive, especially when I
make chocolates.
This is a very simple, basic recipe for
chocolates made with uncooked fondant
– no marble slab, no cream, no paraffin
wax, no tempering.
These chocolates are best refrigerated.
At room temperature, they soften.

Basic fondant

You’ll need one pound of softened butter
Icing sugar – mix in sufficient quantity
to make a stiff mixture that can be rolled
into balls.
I usually split the mixed fondant
into three separate bowls. They can be
refrigerated to be worked on another
day, if necessary.
Refrigerated fondant takes a couple of
hours at room temperature to be easily
workable.
Meanwhile, dipping chocolate (available in supermarket bulk bins) should be
starting to melt under low heat in the top
of a double boiler. For dipping, it should
be liquid and gently warm (not hot).
Place wax or parchment paper on a
cookie sheet.
Additions to the plain fondant can be:
peanut butter, finely shredded coconut,
ground almonds, crushed walnuts, lemon
or orange peel, a little dipping chocolate, minced candied cherries, raisins,
dates, crushed toffee bits or liquid coffee
essence. Quit adding when it tastes right
to you.
Flavourings could be peppermint,
almond essence, maple, lemon, orange,
coconut – or whatever your imagination
suggests.
Peel, raisins, cherries or dates could be
soaked in the alcoholic beverage of your
choice.

Anne Marrison is a Whonnock resident and a
long-time garden columnist for The TIMES.
All must be well-drained before adding
to fondant, or you’ll get leaky chocolates
that have to be double-dipped.
Dates become very alcoholic.
Roll fondant into balls, squares, whatever. Insert a toothpick into each one
and refrigerate or freeze until the fondant
is very solid.
Toothpicks should be the round, wooden, pointed kind, because they are less
likely to break. They can be washed and
re-used if you’re careful.
I have had bad experiences with the
cheap ones.
Check that toothpicks are intact when
you remove them. Any chocolate harbouring a broken toothpick should be
garbaged.
When dipping chocolate is ready, dip
fondant pieces one by one, laying finished ones back on paper-covered cookie
sheet.
Add fancy toppings individually, right
after dipping, while they can stick to the
chocolate.
Toppings can be: various nuts, coloured sugar, crystallized violets, etc.
Leave the fondant at room temperature
till toothpicks can be removed. Then
mend any toothpick holes with dipping
chocolate.
Refrigerate and pack while still cool.
Store in refrigerator.

his is a simple breakfast dish even I can whip up without worrying about
burning the house down – or keeping my cordless phone by my side with
911 on speed dial as I sit on the toilet with a bucket on my lap.
I call it: Troy’s Breakfast Pucks.
And, as I write this, two hours after inhaling a couple of them, so far so good…

Troy’s
breakfast
pucks

Troy Landreville/TIMES

The baked breakfast pucks can be scooped out of the muffin
pans using either a butter knife or a spoon.

Ingredients
Cooking spray
Eggs
Skim (or other) milk (optional)
Some sort of meat
Cheese, shredded
Green onion, chopped
Pepper
Pre-heat oven to 375ºF.
Liberally dose cooking spray over a
half a dozen cups in a muffin pan.
In a separate bowl, beat the crap out of
a half dozen eggs (remember to remove
the shells).
You can use more eggs than that,
depending on how many pucks you want
to eat.
I use a little bit of skim milk in my egg
mixture.

Cut a meat of your choice into tiny
pieces. I like to use Italian sausage,
but skinless chicken or lean turkey are
healthy alternatives. Sprinkle the meat
into each cup.
Then, pour the egg mixture, followed
by a palm-full of shredded cheese into
each cup. I also like to use the feta variety.
Cut up some green onions and sprinkle
the pieces on top of each cup.
To add more flavour, shake a liberal
dose of pepper onto each creation.
Once the oven is ready, place the pan
inside and bake the pucks for 25 minutes.
Once the time is up, remove the pucks
from the oven and scoop them out of
the cups, using either a butter knife or a
spoon.
Voila! Breakfast!

Carla Landreville photo

Langley Advance sportswriter Troy Landreville held up a half a muffin pan full of breakfast pucks.

T

he nice thing about these pucks is, you can stick ’em in a plastic bag and
throw ’em into the fridge or freezer for future consumption.
If you want to eat them later (try to keep it under a week in the fridge,
please), simply throw the pucks into the microwave – on high – for about a
minute to warm them up again.
They actually taste better the next day.
The pucks are terrific on top of toasted, buttered English muffin halves. I like to
layer a mound of mayo on one side of a toasted English muffin, cream cheese on the
other, and make it into an artery-clogging puck sandwich.
In this case, I suggest keeping your friendly neighbourhood cardiologist on speed
dial.

– Troy Landreville, TIMES reporter

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RECIPE

Christmas Rye Balls

M

y mother was always making tasty things for the family when we were growing
up.
I remember round tiered trays full of
tarts, cookies, and balls at Christmas.
She makes a mean Tex-Mex dip, too!
“My favourite is your mom’s strawberry trifle,” said my dad P.D. “Mmm,
and her turkey stuffing is the best,” he
added.
“I’ve had this rye ball recipe for about
40 years,” added my mom Karen about
her famous Christmas Rye Balls.
Years ago, she chopped all the ingredients by hand. Now she’s able to get
things done much quicker, using a food
processor.

Sylver McLaren and older sister Julie sitting on
their dad P.D.’s knee in front of the Christmas
tree in 1974.

Directions
Chop nuts, coconut, cherries together,
mix with icing sugar, whiskey, and butter. Form into one-inch balls (if it’s too
dry, add a little maraschino cherry juice).
Melt the chocolate and paraffin over a
double broiler (do not cook). Drop your
balls in the chocolate and spoon out on
to wax paper.
“Cool and enjoy! They are yummy,”
said Karen.
Sylver McLaren, TIMES reporter

oan Olson’s world revolves
– in big part – around food.
But rest assured she’s not
what you’d call a chef or anything near it.
She’s the executive director of the
Friends In Need Food Bank, and as
such, is immersed in the world of
food almost every day of her life.
But asked if she’s one to cook or
bake, Olson will quickly set that
record straight: “I don’t really bake
myself, just eat.”
She did, however, want to share
her mother’s recipe for cream
wafers, one of her family favourites.

In her role
as executive
director of
the Friends
In Need Food
bank, Joanne
Olson is
often found
out in the
community
collecting
nonperishable
food
donations.

RECIPE

Never too much

C

hamber of Commerce
president Ken Holland
keeps alive a frugal
and flavourful holiday
tradition his mother started
long ago.
“It’s a recipe that has been
in my family forever,” he
said of the stuffing balls.
“My mother has always
made too much stuffing for the turkey,
and with what was
left, she made these
snacks to eat prior
to the actual turkey
dinner,” Holland
recalled.
Describing it as an
easy recipe that can
easily be adapted to any stuffing recipe, it’s a great
addition to any Christmas day menu.
“Whether you are stuffing a turkey or a prime
rib roast, these tasty little balls are an absolute
must,” Holland said.
“Besides, everything tastes better with bacon.”

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Ingredients
loaf of French bread
3 hot Italian sausages,
casings removed
half loaf of brown bread
can of smoked oysters
poultry seasoning
pine nuts
sage
Craisons
½ onion
bacon
ground pork sausage
(I have left out measurements, because I always
add to taste.)
Directions
In a bowl, tear up the bread into sugar cube-size
pieces. Add poultry seasoning and sage to taste.
Fry onion in butter till translucent and mix in with
bread. Fry up pork sausage and add to bread. Fry
up hot Italian sausage and add to bread. Add oysters and mix in with a fork to break up. Roast pine
nuts until golden and add to bread. Add Craisons.
Taste and adjust seasoning as needed. Roll stuffing
into balls just a bit bigger than a golf ball. Wrap
balls with one piece of bacon and pierce with a
toothpick. Place into a glass casserole dish, cover,
and stick in the oven at 350ºF until bacon is done,
approximately 30 minutes.
Enjoy.
Ken Holland, Chamber president

Family Christmas

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times | Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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RECIPE

66 years of family tradition

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t’s not Christmas in Jan Unwin’s home unless her mother’s
shortbread is part of the festivities.
“My mom (Gramma) has been making shortbread cookies
for my dad for 66 years, and for the rest of our family every
year at Christmas for our entire life,” recalled Unwin, the superintendent of schools in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.
“It is a very common Christmas pictures to see my mom with
her hands in the butter mix,” she said.
“These traditional family cookies hold special meaning for the
Jan Unwin
family
this year as both my mom and dad had been in the hosSchool superintendent
pital since the beginning of September, and only came home last
week – in time for Mom’s 86th birthday,” Unwin explained, noting her mother was
so excited about being home and making the shortbread cookies again.

Gramma’s Shortbread Cookies

Jan Unwin’s parents are home from hospital, in time
for Gramma to bake her traditional shortbread.

Jan Unwin, Superintendent

RECIPE

T

Sweet cheesy apples

his started out as two separate recipes, one from some uppity cookbook that
everyone likes to have on their shelf… but everything in it is so complicated
that you never actually use it. I combined a “maple pear” recipe with one for
fried bananas, shifted to apples, and this is what I got.
Warning: I cook like my Mom did, so it’s “a little of this, a little of that” instead of
empirical measures. It’s okay to play with your food… while you’re making it.

Two for dessert:
2 apples (Macs or Spartans are best)
(Or one big apple – but for Donna and me it would
have to be a REALLY BIG one)
A dab of butter (more is better)
Cheese (sharp is best, like old cheddar, but not
mouldy like Danish blue)
Syrup (maple is best, but
any pancake syrup
is OK)
Peel apples
and cut exactly
in half. Core
halves with
point of paring
knife, so each
half becomes a
bowl.
Melt butter in
frying pan (you’ll
need one with a
tight-fitting
lid), and

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just as it starts to brown, add the apple
halves, round-side-up, over medium heat
until the flat sides are slightly toasted. If
using crispier apples, put the lid on the
pan for a bit to help soften them.
Turn the apples over and fill the bowls
to overflowing with syrup, and top with
a slab of cheese. Cover and continue
medium heat until the cheese is completely melted and flows over the
edge of the apple, into the buttery
syrup sauce forming in the bottom
of the pan. More butter and more
syrup equals more sauce (and an
earlier grave). Yum!
Lift apple halves into dessert
bowls, and spoon buttery syrup
with bits of the fried cheese over
top.
Only eat as often as you dare!

elly Swift is looking forward
to starting a new Christmas
tradition with her grandkids this
holiday season.
“My sister and I used to enjoy baking
when we were teenagers, and our brothers always appreciated our efforts – no
matter what the end result looked like,”
recounted Swift.
She was recently promoted to the position of general manager of community
development and parks and recreation for
the District of Maple Ridge.
Despite all the extra responsibilities

recently added to Swift, who has
been a parks employee for 20
years, she vows to find time to
make butter tarts.
“Their [her brothers’] favourite
was and still is butter tarts,” Swift
said. “You can buy butter tarts in
the grocery store, but they never
taste as good as home-made.”
She maintains that they are not
hard to make, and “are still a big
treat on the rare occasion that I
make them, and Christmas is the
perfect opportunity.”

Melt-in-the-mouth butter tarts

Begin with the pastry:

When I was first married, my husband’s
grandmother told me that the best pastry
recipe was on the back of the Tenderflake
lard package, and that’s the recipe that I
still use.
Start with
5½ cups all purpose ﬂour
2 teaspoons of salt
1 pound of lard
Mix the salt in the flour, and then cut in
the lard until it resembles oatmeal.
Stir in the liquid, ensuring that you
don’t overmix.

Next:
1 egg and 1 Tablespoon vinegar
Place egg and vinegar in a measuring
cup and fill the remaining volume with
cold water to equal one full cup.
Roll out your pastry dough on a floured
surface and use a glass or cookie cutter to
create rounds that can be pressed into a
muffin tins.
Press unused scraps back into a ball and
roll out again to cut more rounds.
If you multiply the following butter tart
recipe by four, it will make enough to use
the whole pastry recipe, otherwise, wrap
unused pastry dough and store it in the
refrigerator for another use.

Prepare the filling:

Add remaining ingredients:

Place these first three ingredients in a
sauce pan and cook for 5 minutes:
1 cup of dark corn syrup
2/3 cup of brown sugar
¼ cup of butter
In a separate bowl, place 2 eggs, and
beat slightly.
Allow the cooked mix to cool slightly
and then pour over the eggs, beating continuously.

¼ teaspoon of salt
2/3 cup of raisins (can replace with pecans, walnuts,
or a mix)
½ teaspoon of vanilla
Spoon mix into tart shells until they are
2/3 full. They will puff up as they cook. A
single recipe makes 18 tarts.
Bake at 375ºF for 20 minutes.
Enjoy!

Crowded schools prompt proposed area changes
before the school board on
Jan. 11 for approval.
They need to be done
before the kindergarten

registration which begins
on Jan. 30.
Outgoing trustee Kathie
Ward said she was

by Maria Rantanen

OUTLET
STORE

mrantanen@mrtimes.com

Changes have been
proposed for school catchments in east Maple Ridge
as the area continues to
grow.
The proposed changed
would affect Albion,
Alexander Robinson,
Blue Mountain, Kanaka
Creek, and
Webster’s
Corners,
and
Whonnock
elementaries.
Currently
Albion,
Alexander
Kathie Ward
Robinson,
Outgoing trustee
and
Kanaka Creek elementary
schools are over capacity.
The Maple Ridge-Pitt
Meadows school district
has posted maps of proposed changes to catchment areas in the east on
their website at www.sd42.
ca.
There will also be a feedback forum on Thursday,
Dec. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at
Thomas Haney Secondary
in room 2032.
The public consultation
period began on Nov. 30
and continues ’til Jan. 11.
The changes will be

Pitt Meadows

Firefighters
kept busy
by Sylver McLaren
smclaren@mrtimes.com

A family was awakened
early Saturday morning
by neighbours who heard
noises in the cul-de-sac
and found their SUV
ablaze, said Pitt Meadows
fire chief Don Jolley.
“A small SUV was on
fire in the driveway five
feet from the house,” he
said of the 5:30 a.m. fire.
Police were already in
the neighbourhood on
another call and were on
scene quickly.
The occupants were
evacuated from the home
and the house next door,
said Jolley.
“Obviously, it was intentionally set, because a gas
can was left behind, that
had been taken from a
neighbour’s carport.
“Our crews were very
quick to put out the fire
that had already reached
the house. They prevented
it from spreading further,”
explained Jolley.

•More online at www.mrtimes.com

concerned the timeline
wouldn’t allow enough
time for parent feedback
about the changes.

“I really worry the dates
don’t give good ample time
for public consultation,”
Ward said.

In addition, she said
the maps can be “hard to
understand.”

•More online at www.mrtimes.com

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Blood donors needed

• There are still spaces for
upcoming blood donor clinics
in Maple Ridge. Donors can
book appointments to give
blood in one of two ways: by
calling 1-888-2-DONATE (1888-236-6283) or by booking
online at blood.ca. Upcoming
Maple Ridge clinics are at
Christian Reformed Church,
20245 Dewdney Trunk Rd.
on Dec. 9 and Dec. 23 from
12:15 to 6:45 p.m. Donations
to the Friends In Need Food
Bank are also being accepted
at the December blood donor
clinics. Info: www.blood.ca.

Coats for Kids

• The Greater Vancouver
Home Builders’ Association
is launching its 16th annual
Coats for Kids campaign
in support of the Lower
Mainland Christmas Bureau.
Coats, scarves, gloves, blankets, and new unwrapped
toys and gifts can be dropped
off at Portrait Homes Ltd.,
13851 232nd St., Monday to
Friday from noon to 5 p.m.

December 7

The Chamber of Commerce
Serving Maple Ridge and Pitt
Meadows holds its annual
general meeting at The ACT,
11944 Haney Pl. from noon
to 2 p.m. The cost is $35
(plus HST) and includes
lunch. For tickets, contact
Carrisa at the chamber office
at 604-463-3366 or carrisa@
ridgemeadowschamber.com.

December 7

• St. George’s Anglican
Church holds a nondenominational candlelit service at 7 p.m. to
remember lost loved ones.
Refreshments will be served.
Info: 604-463-7722.

beginnings to today’s sitcoms, reality shows, police
dramas, and daytime talk
shows. Special guests at
the screening are John
Henry Harter, labour studies
instructor, from Simon Fraser
University, and Teri Mitchell
from Street Ministries
Community Supper, which
serves hot meals and provides clothing and other
comforts to those in need
including the working poor
in Maple Ridge. The film
is at 7 p.m. at Maple Ridge
Municipal Hall, 11995 Haney
Pl. Admission is free.

December 10
• Breakfast with Santa takes
place from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at
St. Andrew’s Haney United
Church, 22165 Dewdney
Trunk Rd. Come see Santa
and Mrs. Claus. Photos also
available. Tickets are $5 per
person and are available at
the church office at 604-4639611.

December 10

• Pet pictures with Santa
takes place at the Maple
Ridge SPCA from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. at the shelter, 10235
Jackson Rd. To avoid the
line-up, book in advance at
604-463-9511. There will be
hot chocolate and cookies.

December 10

• Santa Claus will be stopping by at Ruskin Hall at
284th Street and 96th Avenue
for a pancake breakfast from
10 to 11 a.m. Pancakes and
sausages will be served from
9 to 11 a.m. Kids of all ages
welcome.

• Music Memories is presented by the Ridge Meadows
Seniors Society at 2 p.m. The
program features music in
the styles of Roy Orbison,
Tammy Wynette, and Elvis.
There will also be Hawaiian
and tap and jazz dancers.
Advance tickets are $8 from
the seniors centre, 12150
224th St. or $9 at the door.
Info: 604-467-4993.

December 10

• From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
the Maple Ridge and Pitt
Meadows fire departments
will shake their boots for
two local charities. They will
be at 10 locations collecting toys, food, and cash for
the Friends In Need Food
Bank and Christmas hamper
society. The locations in Pitt
Meadows are IGA, Superstore
(both doors), and Starbucks
and the Signature Liquor
Store at Meadowtown Centre.
In Maple Ridge, they will
be at both Save-On-Foods,
Safeway, Coopers Foods,
Haney Place Mall (south
centre entrance), and Valley
Fair Mall (London Drugs).

December 10 & 11

• The Old Chicken Farm
Art & Craft Sale will be happening from 10:13 am to
4:03 pm, at 25812 Dewdney
Trunk Rd. in Webster’s
Corners. Claire Louise
Stephen, Rik Watson, and
surprise guest artists will
have paintings, art rocks,
cards, limited-edition calendars, and more for sale. Ten
per cent of sales goes to the
Friends In Need Food Bank.
Info: 604-462-1399.

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• The Maple Ridge Lions
Club holds three local meat
draws weekly: By Bailey’s
and the Witch of Endor on
Fridays from 5 to 7 p.m. and
Sundays 3 to 5 p.m., and on
Saturdays at the Fox’s Reach
from 3 to 5 p.m.

• Full list: www.mrtimes.com

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Sports
Hockey girls win
Meadowridge Barracudas
midget A1 girls rep team won the
championship at the Kamloops
hockey tournament on the
weekend. They wrapped up the
weekend with an exciting 5-3 win
against Salmon Arm for the title.
• More online: www.mrtimes.com,
click on “Sports”

Nathan Wadhwani and Tim
Hargreaves at the awards dinner.

Athletes honoured
Two Maple Ridge athletes
received awards at the BC
Athletics Awards dinner at the
Richmond Sheraton on Dec. 3.
Tim Hargreaves received an
award for high jump performance
and Nathan Wadhwani for his
2,000-metre distance running and
1,500-metre steeplechase records.
• More online: www.mrtimes.com,
click on “Sports”

Send your scores
and game reports to
smclaren@mrtimes.com

Charity

Long-time coach’s illness inspires shorn heads

A party raises
$1,000 for cancer.
by Maria Rantanen
mrantanen@mrtimes.com

www.mrtimes.com

On Deck

A17

More
Delmar Jonescu
was around for every
Photos
sport his son Andrew
Online
participated in,
coaching and refereeing, and he has continued
to be involved in local
sports even after his son
grew up.
So when Andrew
Jonescu found out his dad
had cancer, he wanted to
show how much he was
appreciated.
Andrew set about organizing a party – with a charity aspect – to support his
father and raise money.
Andrew organized a head
shave party this Saturday.
Pledges were taken for
people getting their heads
Sylver McLaren/TIMES
shaved, and hair was colNora Thompson, 89, and her grandson Ron Schwartz, visiting from Williams Lake, both got their heads shaved to
lected to make wigs for
support Delmar Jonescu, a local rugby coach who has cancer.
people undergoing cancer
$960 for the Canadian
“It was just a really posiDelmar has cancer in
treatment.
Cancer Society. Andrew
tive thing,” Andrew said.
his colon and stomach
There were about 80
“I was so touched so many and starts chemo this
people at the “happy, emo- kicked in another $40 to
make it an even $1,000.
people would come.”
week. Despite that, he was
tional” party, which raised

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out reffing an old-timers
hockey game a week ago,
Andrew reported.
Andrew, 25, grew up in
Maple Ridge. He moved
to Vancouver to work, but
when he heard his father
was sick, he decided to
move back to Maple Ridge.
The head shave idea
was partly to raise money
for cancer research, but
Andrew said he also wanted his father “to feel he’s
not alone.”
It was fun to watch
people who are usually
“vain” about their hair get
it all shaved, Andrew said.
Andrew asked two
friends who were hairdressers to do the shaving, and at the end of the
evening, they, too, decided
to partially shave their
heads giving themselves a
mohawk look.
Andrew has never had
a shorn head, and said
it feels “weird” taking a
shower, putting his head
on a pillow, or touching
his head. He plans to keep
his head shorn while his
father goes through treatment in solidarity.

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Anxious to give back, members of the Golden Ears United Soccer Club U16 silver team, the Bullets, volunteered to
sort toys and gifts at the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Christmas Hamper.

Christmas spirit

Soccer girls to the rescue

Fifteen 15-year-olds volunteered their
time to the Christmas hamper at the
Albion Fairgrounds.
by Sylver McLaren
smclaren@mrtimes.com

A couple weeks ago the second hand
area for birth- to five-years at the Maple
Ridge-Pitt Meadows Christmas Hamper
was over flowing with bags of kids clothing and bedding.
Volunteers were struggling to keep up
with the volume, but then they received

an email from a member of a local soccer team who wanted to give back to the
community.
They were the Golden Ears United
Soccer Club U16 silver girls team and
15 of them were in the spirit of giving –
along with two coaches and four parents.
“Well, did we have a job for them,”
said Lorraine Bates co-chair of the hamper.
“We laid out a huge row of tables, the
bags (instead of a soccer ball) were delivered to their feet, and off they went,”
Bates explained.
“In an hour a small, or should I say a
very large, miracle happened,” she added.

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based outreach services to
children and youth and their
families
You are excited to deliver
community based innovative
assessment and treatment
approaches
You are motivated to develop the
child and youth assessment and
treatment model for an evolving
Aboriginal agency
You have a minimum of two years
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services setting, with
responsibility for providing a wide
range of community based mental
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You possess a MSW, M.ED
(Counseling), MA (Clinical
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Child and Youth Care or
comparable graduate degree at a
Master’s level
For further information please
contact William Yoachim,
Executive Director
Please apply by December 16th,
2011 by forwarding your resume
and cover letter to:
Kwumut Lelum Child
& Family Services
544 Centre Street,
Nanaimo, BC, V9R4Z3
Fax: 250-591-0935 Email:
wyoachim@kwumut.org
To view the complete posting
please see our website at
www.kwumut.org
Please note that only successful
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Making a difference
Building on strengths
Working inclusively and
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family, community and culture
If these statements resonate for
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How do you know if you are the
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You have experience and/or
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For further information please
contact Bill Yoachim, Executive
Director. Please apply by
December 30th, 2011 by
forwarding your resume and
cover letter to:
Kwumut Lelum Child &
Family Services
544 Centre Street,
Nanaimo, BC, V9R4Z3
Fax: (250) 591-0935 Email:
wyoachim@kwumut.org
To view the complete posting
please see our website at
www.kwumut.org
Please note that only successful
applicants will be contacted.

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